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TEDxGreenville will focus Tuesday on a sensitive subject for some Greenville musicians and venue owners: Where's the music scene?

Two insiders to the local music scene will use the monthly TEDxGreenville salon as a chance to share how businesses, musicians, and the overall community can help create a vibrant culture of live music.

With Greenville positioned between two national music destinations, some live-music fans, performers and others want people to think about live music when they think about the city. They say the place possesses immense potential to grow a live music scene to compliment efforts to attract more visitors and residents to the area.

Drummer and longtime Greenville resident Jaze Uries and Moe Joe Coffee and Music House owner Alex Dial will each discuss cultivating a rich music scene at the TEDxGreenville event at Zen on Main Street.

"We're probably one of the best located cities on the East Coast," Uries said. "Most bands traveling from Atlanta to Charlotte don't make the stop."

Dial started his coffeehouse music business in 2009 in Clemson and opened a location in downtown Greenville in September. The venue has an open-mike night on Thursdays and performances on Friday and Saturdays. He said he tries to book performers with original music.

"We're getting to a point where we're going to do two shows a night," he said. "If you get known as a music town people drive there just to hear music."

While many of downtown's restaurants have musicians performing, Dial said few devote serious focus to attract rising singer-songwriter types and other genres looking for a place to play. However, he sees lots of promise in business and government leadership to encourage growth.

Earlier this month, CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg identified Greenville on his list of 2015's hottest new vacation destinations, joining cities in Egypt, Denmark and Germany. He called Greenville the "new Austin." The Texas state Capitol is also known as the live-music Capitol of the world, a heavy technology sector and a place willing to try different ideas.

TEDxGreenville salon curator Whitney Walters, a singer and musician herself, said the free event limited to 100 people brings interesting speakers to discuss important topics 11 times each year involving up to two speakers, a TED Talk video and a question and answer period.

She said this month's event involves a "really touchy subject for a lot of people" in the area but can have potential to make a difference. Area restaurant owners and musicians have registered to attend.

"This is a good topic for us," she said. "People want to say a lot about this."

The salon has nreached the maximum registration but allows others to sign up online for a waiting list at tedxgreenville.com.

TEDx events organize through local teams independent from TED, a nonprofit based in California that produces an annual conference of dynamic, creative and many well-known speakers with ideas to change the world related to technology, entertainment and design. One TED speaker each year receives $1 million to pursue their idea.